向药师如来祈愿文 · 星云大师 A Prayer to the Medicine Buddha by Venerable Master Hsing Yun

慈悲伟大的药师如来！
请您垂听我的报告，
今天世界上的苦难实在是太多了！
政治经济的动荡，地水火风的灾变，
往往使人们在瞬息之间，失去了所有的一切。
那四大不调，缠绵病榻的痛苦，
即使英雄好汉也呻吟难安；
那贪瞋愚痴，烦恼丛生的业海，
有如波涛汹涌地翻滚不停。

慈悲伟大的药师如来！
我今天虔诚地称念您的名号，礼敬您的圣容，
不只是祈求您能加被我个人，
更希望众生都得到您的庇护。
在这个五浊恶世里，天灾人祸是共业所感召；
在这个娑婆秽土中，身心疾苦是烦恼所造成。
如果要彻底消除灾难，先得消除自己的罪业；
如果要建立琉璃净土，先得净化自己的身心。
所以我要祈求药师如来您，
消除我们的贪婪瞋恚，消除我们的无明斗争。
我们愿将所有善根功德，回向法界一切众生。
更祈求您以神力加被我们，
我在您的面前也发如是清净本愿：

第一愿：愿所有众生平等自在，
第二愿：愿所做事业利益大众，
第三愿：愿惊慌恐怖从此远离，
第四愿：愿一切有情安住菩提，
第五愿：愿天灾人祸消失无形，
第六愿：愿残缺众生复健正常，
第七愿：愿病苦众生恢复健康，
第八愿：愿人际关系沟通调和，
第九愿：愿邪见众生改邪归正，
第十愿：愿受冤囚者平反冤屈，
第十一愿：愿社会大众丰衣足食，
第十二愿：愿所有众生包容尊重。

祈求您施舍大慈大悲，
让我们人间也能建设琉璃净土。
慈悲伟大的药师如来！
请求您接受我至诚的祈愿！
请求您接受我至诚的祈愿！

Oh great, compassionate Medicine Buddha!
Please listen to my report.
There is truly too much suffering in the world these days:
The turbulence of politics and the economy;
The disasters of earth, water, fire, and wind;
All these often make people lose everything they own
in the blink of an eye.
The suffering of being bedridden with a lingering illness
resulting from an imbalance of the four great elements;
Even heroes moan and groan and have difficulty being at ease;
The sea of karma that is full of passions and delusions
resulting from greed, anger, and ignorance
rolls unceasingly like roaring waves and billows.

Oh great, compassionate Medicine Buddha!
Today, I sincerely chant your name
and pay homage before your sacred image,
Not to ask you only to bless myself,
but to hope that all beings obtain your great protection.
In this world of impurity,
all natural disasters and man-made calamities
are caused by collective karma;
On this impure, mundane earth,
physical and mental suffering
is caused by the passions and delusions of life.
If we want to thoroughly eliminate calamities and disasters,
we must first eliminate the karma of our own wrongdoings;
If we want to establish the Pure Land of the East,
we must first purify our bodies and minds.
Therefore, I would like to pray to you, Medicine Buddha,
to eliminate our greed and anger,
to eliminate our ignorance and struggles.
We are willing to transfer all our good-rooted merits
to all beings in the dharma realms.
I pray to you to bestow your great power on us for protection;
I will undertake the following, pure, original vows:

First vow: May all sentient beings be equal and at ease;
Second vow: May all undertakings benefit the masses;
Third vow: May panic and terror be kept far away;
Fourth vow: May all sentient beings calmly uphold bodhi;
Fifth vow: May man-made calamities and natural disasters
disappear completely;
Sixth vow: May all physically-challenged beings
be rehabilitated back to normal;
Seventh vow: May all beings suffering from diseases
be restored to health;
Eighth vow: May all human relations foster
mutual understanding and harmony;
Ninth vow: May all beings with wrong views
turn over a new leaf;
Tenth vow: May those unjustly imprisoned
have their injustices redressed;
Eleventh vow: May society and the masses live in affluence;
Twelfth vow: May all beings be tolerant and respectful.

I pray that you bestow your great compassion upon us,
to let our human world also establish the Pure Land of the East.
Oh great, compassionate Medicine Buddha,
Please accept my sincerest prayer!
Please accept my sincerest prayer!